Veritas Enterprise Vault (EV) is an enterprise information archive platform developed by

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. It is part of the company's "Information Governance" suite.Symantec bundles archiving and security:http://www.infostor.com/display_article/295641/23/ARTCL/none/none/Symantec-bundles-archiving-and-security/ Enterprise Vault has the ability to archive from various sources such as Microsoft Exchange (2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003), SMTP (any), IBM Domino (latest release),

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and various File Systems (Windows NTFS and Linux/Unix file systems) with the ability to store on a multiple of storage platforms, such as

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, Centera, SMB and

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. tp://ftp.entsupport.symantec.com/pub/support/products/Exchange_Mailbox_Archiving_Unit/276547.pdf/ref> The data archived is indexed, classified, de-duplicated and securely stored.

History

Enterprise Vault was originally developed at

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(DEC) by a group of developers who had previously been the engineering team for Digital's VMS based ALL-IN-1 office and messaging system. After DEC was acquired by

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the Enterprise Vault team was terminated just after Version 1 of the product was shipped. Technical Director Nigel Dutt approached Edward Forwood of broker Durlacher with a proposal to start a company to develop and sell the product. They consequently acquired the rights to the product and formed kVault Software Limited in late 1999 with initial funding from Durlacher. The four years from 2000–2004 saw greatly improved sales and eventual acquisition by

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in 2004.VERITAS News Release: http://www.tornado-insider.com/radar/compShow.asp?compID=5717 Veritas was subsequently acquired by Symantec in 2005 for $13.5B. However, on February 1, 2016, Symantec completed its sale of Veritas to the Carlyle group for $7.4B and Enterprise Vault again reverted to being a

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product. Enterprise Vault was originally part of Symantec's "Enterprise Messaging Management" group (created after Symantec acquired VERITAS in 2005Symantec News Release: http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20050705_01). Much of the original KVS Engineering team of

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and QA still work on Enterprise Vault, based in Reading (UK) and

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(India). As of June 2018 all Enterprise Vault engineers in the UK were made redundant.

Release timeline

Last updated 24 February 2022.

References

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External links

Official Product Page

Enterprise Vault history 1997-2004
Symantec software Computer archives